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stop applying biosolids on agricultural lands

More and more citizens across Ontario are becoming concerned about the application of sewage sludge a.k.a. biosolids on agricultural land. Public officials and environmental groups have raised alarm bells as reports of illness are springing up at an alarming rate.
Since sewage sludge isn\'t just human waste, and contains pollutants from industrial (hospital, morgues, slaughter houses, etc.) and household wastes, it contains heavy metals, drugs/pharmaceuticals, organic compounds and disease-causing organisms. Biosolids can be more toxic than manure or raw sewage! Emerging contaminants; include; steriods, non-prescription drugs, insect repellents, detergents byproducts, disinfectants, plasticizers, fire retardants, anitbiotics, insecticides, reproductive hormones, other prescription drugs and solvents.
Concerns being raised are;
Health Risks - airborne pathogens, endotoxins, heavy metals, etc.
Water Tables - contamination of wells, rivers, streams, lakes, abandoned wells, tile drains.
Food Chain - roots from crops soak up nutrients and absorb pathogens.
Property Values - if you live adjacent to a field being sludged, your property value decreases.
wildlife - who protects them from grazing on a field that has been sludged, birds/rodents - do they carry toxins/antibiotic resistant diseases
If you don\'t want to eat food grown in pathogenic human feces and untested industrial chemical wastes, please sign this petition. Anyone who eats or drinks should be concerned about this practice.
All crops end up in the food chain one way or another, whether it is soya or wheat, corn or oats that is used to make feed for livestock, which also ends up on the kitchen table. There has to be an alternative to applying sewage sludge on rural farm lands.

4 years agoComments:
Need a petition for Pennsylvania. They are dumping biosolids in the middle of our town adn we cannot stand the smell.

Michael Napiorkowski, Canada

5 years agoComments:
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Chris Frost, United Kingdom

6 years agoComments:
I am planning to move to the area from England with my family. Is this really the kind of thing Trent Hills wishes to be known for This news is spreading much further than southern Ontario - and very quickly. Property in the area will never sell at this rate. Ban the crap!

Gary Mooney, Canada

7 years agoComments:
The Ontario Ministry of the Environment says that field spreading of sludge is safe. However, this is impossible to confirm for chemical compounds that have not been tested. So we have two choices: continue spreading until proven to be unsafe, or stop spreading until proven to be safe. I choose the latter.

Gary Mooney, Canada

7 years agoComments:
The Ontario Ministry of the Environment says that field spreading of sludge is safe. However, this is impossible to confirm for chemical compounds that have not been tested. So we have two choices: continue spreading until proven to be unsafe, or stop spreading until proven to be safe. I choose the latter.

Isabel Wickman, Canada

7 years agoComments:
The problems that are coming from fruit and vegetables shipped from other countries will happen here soon if allowing sludge on fields. Sod farms are taken up and placed on town and city lawns which will spread superbugs to everyone.

Sue and Hugh Auld, Canada

7 years ago

Sue and Hugh Auld, Canada

7 years ago

Dennis & Maggie Zezula, Canada

7 years agoComments:
Ontario government should create a 10 km buffer zone around the Oak Ridges Moraine on which no sludge spreading should be allowed. Moraine contains drinking water for many communities of Ontario.